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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the narrator return to her house after her trip in town?
(a) Midnight.
(b) Late afternoon.
(c) Late morning.
(d) Early morning.

2. What does one of Bheki's friends bring to the narrator's home?
(a) A gun.
(b) A political pamphlet.
(c) A video cassette.
(d) A bicycle.

3. How much money does the man take from the narrator?
(a) 20 rands.
(b) Everything she has in her purse.
(c) 150 Rands.
(d) 50 Rands.

4. Where is the narrator's husband in Part One?
(a) On a boat.
(b) With another woman.
(c) Dead.
(d) In jail.

5. Where does the narrator find Mr. Vercueil when she wakes?
(a) On the front porch.
(b) On the guest bed.
(c) On the kitchen floor.
(d) On the couch.

6. Why do the youth of the township do?
(a) Fight with white students.
(b) Burn their own school.
(c) Drive white people out of the township.
(d) Burn a police station.

7. What does the narrator write about?
(a) The Berlin wall.
(b) The space race.
(c) The Afghan war.
(d) Apartheid.

8. How does the narrator describe Mr Vercueil's usual temperament?
(a) On edge.
(b) Happy.
(c) Excited.
(d) Sullen.

9. What does the narrator spend the day doing according to page 15?
(a) Spends the day gardening.
(b) Spends the day cleaning the house.
(c) Spends the day in bed reading.
(d) Spends the day writing.

10. Where does the narrator live?
(a) U.S.A.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) South Africa.

11. Who does the narrator ask for help with her car problems?
(a) The homeless man.
(b) Her daughter.
(c) The neighbor.
(d) A mechanic.

12. What does the narrator want to do before being discouraged from doing so by Florence?
(a) Bring Bheki to a white doctor.
(b) File a complaint about the police.
(c) Bring Bheki to the police.
(d) Call the mayor's office.

13. What does the narrator ask her housekeeper to do in the letter she writes?
(a) To keep the children quiet the next morning.
(b) To leave the house for a week.
(c) To send Bheki away.
(d) To send her daughters away.

14. What do Bheki and his friend crash into?
(a) A bay window.
(b) A plumber's car.
(c) A wall.
(d) A police car.

15. Who is the narrator of the book?
(a) An aged woman.
(b) A police officer.
(c) A black farmer.
(d) A young man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the man that the narrator brings on her trip to town from?

2. Why does Florence bring Bheki back to the house?

3. What does the person helping the narrator say she could do with the extra room in her house?

4. What does the narrator say about charity not being appreciated?

5. What does the narrator see the police do?

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